University of Oregon Problems

[MsProudSooner]

https://www.yahoo.com/health/how-1-student-can-be-accused-of-rape-at-2-126453508347.html

 

[DenverSooner]

Thank you for sharing that article. I was recently in Boston and visited the Harvard and MIT campuses. Both had notable chalking and posters about assault on women at college campuses. This is a big issue right now. It wouldn't surprise me to see this story get some traction.

On an OU related note, I noticed one of the players went to Houston. As most know, our former coach, Kelvin Sampson is now the head coach at Houston.

 

[AdaSooner]

Huuumm!

Makes me wonder if this story will have any effect on Payton Pritchard's decision? He is thought by some to be an Oregon lean. Based on everything I have read and heard about Payton and his parents, the adverse publicity will at the very least cause them to think twice about where he will spend the the next four years.

 

[campbest]

Huuumm!

Makes me wonder if this story will have any effect on Payton Pritchard's decision? He is thought by some to be an Oregon lean. Based on everything I have read and heard about Payton and his parents, the adverse publicity will at the very least cause them to think twice about where he will spend the the next four years.

Dana Altman isn't going anywhere, doubt it will influence his decision.

 

[AdaSooner]

Dana Altman isn't going anywhere, doubt it will influence his decision.

Dana Altman didn't even enter my mind when I made that comment. I'm talking about the adverse publicity associated with this story: Girl gang raped by three members of the basketball team, one of them charged with assault at another university.

My point is that the Pritchards don't impress me as the kind of people who would look kindly on a basketball program that would bring in a player who was at least accused of a deplorable offense like rape at two other schools. It doesn't matter that Altman had nothing to do with it. It's still a huge black eye nationally on Oregon's basketball program.

And, before someone points out that OU's football team has been guilty of bringing in and/or retaining players with questionable characters, OU's basketball program has been squeaky clean since Lon Kruger arrived on campus. To my knowledge, no player on our roster has even had a parking ticket the past four years. That's the kind of program I would want my son to be part of, and I'm betting Payton's parents feel the same way.

 

[Max Power]

Dana Altman didn't even enter my mind when I made that comment. I'm talking about the adverse publicity associated with this story: Girl gang raped by three members of the basketball team, one of them charged with assault at another university.

My point is that the Pritchards don't impress me as the kind of people who would look kindly on a basketball program that would bring in a player who was at least accused of a deplorable offense like rape at two other school. It doesn't matter that Altman had nothing to do with it. It's still a huge black eye nationally on Oregon's basketball program.

And, before someone points out that OU's football team has been guilty of bringing in and/or retaining players with questionable characters, OU's basketball program has been squeaky clean since Lon Kruger arrived on campus. To my knowledge, no player on our roster has even had a parking ticket the past four years. That's the kind of program I would want my son to be part of, and I'm betting Payton's parents feel the same way.

Yep, the only trouble under Lon that we have heard about has been kids skipping class a few times and the Yo-Yo booster stuff that was immediately handled in the Bahamas

 

[sperry]

Yep, the only trouble under Lon that we have heard about has been kids skipping class a few times and the Yo-Yo booster stuff that was immediately handled in the Bahamas

Cousins got arrested, but not for anything major.

 

[Max Power]

Cousins got arrested, but not for anything major.

I forgot about that, my bad

 

[usedtobe1]

Huuumm!

Makes me wonder if this story will have any effect on Payton Pritchard's decision? He is thought by some to be an Oregon lean. Based on everything I have read and heard about Payton and his parents, the adverse publicity will at the very least cause them to think twice about where he will spend the the next four years.

This is really old news, so I doubt it has any additional effect on PP's decision. The sexual assault happened in March of 2014 and the 3 players were dismissed from Oregon in June of 2014. To put it in perspective, it happened 5 months before the Joe Mixon punch.

One of the players is from Houston: Damyean Dotson. He averaged over 10 ppg his first 2 years at Oregon. He transferred to a Houston area juco and graduated last year (his RS year), and has signed a letter of intent to play for Kelvin at Houston. I think it's worth noting that no criminal charges were ever filed against the 3 players, although the university paid $800,000 as a result of a civil suit.

This was all over the news a year ago in Oregon, but has faded away by now. This article is more about how all the parties were effected a year later. The 3 players all landed on their feet at another school.